#1After suffering a traumatic incident, Molly moves into a new apartment to begin her path to recovery, but it’s not long after her arrival that a series of persistent knocks and screams begin to wake her up at night.
Knocking
★ 5.42021
A refuge for cinephiles since it launched in San Francisco in 2011, Fandor hand-picks independent, arthouse, foreign and classic films, many with a festival pedigree, and today sits inside the Cineverse stable of streaming brands, formerly Cinedigm. Fandor is available in the US on the web, mobile, Roku, as a Prime Video channel and even as a Philo add-on, but the catalog is locked to American IP addresses only and nothing plays elsewhere.
Leave that footprint behind, say on a work trip or a long visit to family, and the player throws a geo error the moment it reads a foreign location. Surfshark fixes that: pick a server back home in the United States and your account behaves as if you never left town. You still pay for your own membership, the seven-day trial included, while Surfshark simply restores the home IP and encrypts the link on shared hotel or cafe wi-fi.
Tested weekly by our team. Green: works, amber: partial, red: blocked.
| VPN Service | Price | Fandor | Tested | Action |
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IPVanish | From $2.19/mo | ~ Partial | July 27 | Open |
ProtonVPN | From $3.59/mo | ~ Partial | July 22 | Open |
CyberGhost | From $1.75/mo | ~ Partial | July 26 | Open |
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Fandor is only available in the United States. To access it from anywhere else, use a premium VPN.
Fandor is blocked in the United Kingdom, in Australia, in Canada, in New Zealand and in Ireland, plus in 188 more countries. To access it, use a premium VPN like Surfshark.
Fandor is a streaming home built for people who love film as more than background noise. It leans into arthouse, independent, foreign and classic cinema, with titles chosen by hand rather than served up by an algorithm. Expect festival picks and themed collections put together by people who actually know the work. Fandor launched back in 2011 and is owned today by Cineverse, the company formerly called Cinedigm that simply renamed itself in 2023. It is a quiet, boutique service rather than a firehose of weekly releases, but it is very much alive. Despite the rumor, it has no tie to the Criterion Channel. It is available in the United States only, geo-locked elsewhere, with patchy VPN access, and you can also add it through Amazon Prime Video, Roku or Philo.

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